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Thanks a lot for the links, everyone! Do send us more if you've got them.

SOCIOLOGISTS: we are writing an annual review article about word embeddings in sociology. If you have a published article or draft manuscript you've written using word embeddings (including LLMs like BERT/GPT3/...), please drop me a line with a URL so we can include it.

(* w/ @arsenievK and @ethanjohnst)

Female schooling has soared, But men are still more likely to be called ‘intelligent’. ‘Genius’ is still reserved for men. New analysis of a 200 million word corpus of US print media (1930-2009) by @_Andrei_B_ @arsenievK & Cornell

@GenderParityUK @_alice_evans @arsenievK Roughly speaking, if a term has a y coordinate of +1, that means it is one standard deviation more likely to be used in the contexts of feminine terms than in the context of masculine terms at that point in time.

@_alice_evans @_Andrei_B_ @arsenievK Please explain what the vertical axis of this diagram shows. What does (for example) +1 on the feminine side mean? Please describe the implications of one line.

@Glen99630953 @_alice_evans @arsenievK Yes, but the chart is actually 1/2 of this finding, the other 1/2 being that the gender associations of intelligence and unintelligence move in unison. In other words, women used to be more associated with the *judgement* of intelligence (high or low), whereas now it is men.

@_alice_evans @_Andrei_B_ @arsenievK Is this chart saying that words for intelligence had a bias towards women being more intelligent until 1970 when they started having a bias towards men? This seems like a strange story to tell.

@Amtrak, does the AC in roomettes/bedrooms on SW Chief recirculate air from rest of train? And if so, are there HEPA filters (or other devices) to prevent coronavirus spread?

Trying to decide on a paper title: (1) "What Exactly are Cultural Schemas: A Conceptual Reorientation & User's Guide" vs (2) "Cultural Schemas: What They Are, How to Find Them, and What to Do Once You've Caught One" [or (2b): "... Once You Have One"]. Thoughts?

This review is literally the stuff of nightmares. The argument is roughly: 'the scientific community is the only rightful evaluator of quality of published work; thus, evaluations of the quality of published work by members of this community should not be published'

Quiz: sociology paper or math paper? math.ucdavis.edu/~lsilver/files… (I got 15/17)

3.6 million instances of (very, very small-scale) pro-social behavior. #theinternet twitter.com/carterjwm/stat…

Belief Network Analysis: A Relational Approach to Understanding the Structure of Attitudes bit.ly/2pnXJ3p #sna #PoliSci

Huh, R takes ~0.02 sec to run an endline..? Compare "a <- Sys.time(); b <- Sys.time(); a-b" to same script w endlines instead of semicolons.

(and I am willing to go very, very lax with the definition of "useful" here)

A physical UI of sliders/knobs to control any software: dpreview.com/news/266063840… Any way to make these useful with statistical software?

538 now gives Hillary 70.8%, her best odds since Sep 5. Guess that 1 debate was enough to undo whole month of Trump pretending to be Romney.

Appealing take on new Penn Sta: nytimes.com/interactive/20…… May be better than orig, which was as oppressively monumental as Farley post is now

Srsly, sugar-lobby oppo to oakland soda tax may be highest per-voter funded campaign I've seen. Inundated by ads. Lobby clearly scared.

Seeing online ads and getting mailed glossy fliers& branded grocery bag frm sugar-lobby oppo to #OakSodaTax. Well-funded & wildly misleading

@omarwagih Absolutely love guessthecor! But points are always so nicely distributed. For teaching, wld be great to introduce outliers etc.